batch.motif.greek-odyssey-butler-gutenberg-l3176-l3259
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record_id: batch.motif.greek-odyssey-butler-gutenberg-l3176-l3259
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/odyssey-butler.md
passage_locator:
label: BOOK VI / THE MEETING BETWEEN NAUSICAA AND ULYSSES. / BOOK VII / RECEPTION
OF ULYSSES AT THE PALACE OF KING ALCINOUS.; lines 3176-3259
start: '3176'
end: '3259'
translation: The Odyssey
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: Ulysses denies that he is immortal, asks Alcinous for food and help returning
home, and then explains how Calypso kept him on Ogygia, how he survived shipwreck
and storm, and how Alcinous's daughter aided him with food, washing, and clothing.
Alcinous faults his daughter for not bringing him directly to the house, but Ulysses
defends her conduct.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Ulysses says he has nothing immortal about him and identifies himself as afflicted
rather than divine.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Ulysses asks to eat despite sorrow and asks that at daybreak the Phaeacians
help him get home.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The assembly approves arranging an escort for Ulysses because he has spoken
reasonably.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: Arete recognizes Ulysses' shirt, cloak, and clothes as work made by herself
and her maids.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: Arete asks Ulysses who he is, where he comes from, and who gave him the clothes.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:6
text: Ulysses reports that Calypso lives on Ogygia by herself, far from human and
divine neighbors.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:7
text: Ulysses reports that Jove struck his ship with thunderbolts and broke it up
in mid-ocean.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:8
text: Ulysses says his comrades drowned, while he clung to the keel and drifted
for nine days before reaching Ogygia on the tenth night.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:9
text: Ulysses says Calypso received him kindly and wanted to make him immortal and
ageless, but he would not be persuaded.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:10
text: Ulysses says he stayed with Calypso for seven years and departed in the eighth
year after she chose or was compelled to send him away.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:11
text: Calypso sends Ulysses away on a raft with bread, wine, clothing, and a warm
fair wind.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:12
text: After sailing for seventeen days, Ulysses sees the outlines of the mountains
on the Phaeacian coast on the eighteenth day.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:13
text: Neptune raises a storm; the raft breaks apart, and Ulysses swims until wind
and current bring him to shore.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: obs:14
text: Ulysses cannot land among rocks, swims to a sheltered river, leaves the water,
and recovers his senses.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: obs:15
text: Ulysses spends the night and following day asleep in a thicket covered with
leaves.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: obs:16
text: Ulysses sees Alcinous's daughter and her maid servants playing on the beach
and asks her for aid.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: obs:17
text: Alcinous's daughter gives Ulysses bread, wine, washing in the river, and the
clothes he is wearing.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: obs:18
text: Alcinous says his daughter was wrong not to bring Ulysses to the house at
once, but Ulysses says she is not to blame.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Ulysses
description: Afflicted stranger and shipwreck survivor who recounts his journey
and requests help returning home.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:6
- ev:11
- ev:12
- ev:14
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Alcinous
description: Host addressed by Ulysses; he approves escort and later comments on
his daughter's conduct.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:16
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Arete
description: Queen who recognizes Ulysses' clothing as work made by herself and
her maids and questions him.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Calypso
description: Cunning and powerful goddess, daughter of Atlas, living alone on Ogygia;
she receives Ulysses, keeps him seven years, offers immortality, and later sends
him away provisioned.
role_refs:
- role:6
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Jove
description: God said to have struck Ulysses' ship with thunderbolts and possibly
ordered Calypso to let him depart.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:8
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Neptune
description: God who raises a great storm against Ulysses and prevents him from
going farther by raft.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Alcinous's daughter
description: Young woman on the beach, compared in appearance to a goddess, who
gives Ulysses aid, food, washing, and clothing.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- ev:15
- ev:16
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: maid servants
description: Maid servants of Alcinous's daughter who are seen playing upon the
beach; Arete's maids also worked on the clothes.
role_refs:
- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:14
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Ulysses' comrades
description: Ulysses' brave comrades who drowned after Jove broke up the ship.
role_refs:
- role:12
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
roles:
- id: role:1
label: afflicted mortal stranger
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Ulysses denies being immortal and describes himself as afflicted and in trouble.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: role:2
label: homeward seeker
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: He asks to be helped home and says he would be content to die after seeing
his house again.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:3
label: shipwreck survivor
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: He survives the destruction of his ship, clings to a keel, loses his raft,
and swims ashore.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:11
- ev:12
- id: role:4
label: host king arranging escort
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The passage has Alcinous addressed as the person to help Ulysses return and
records agreement to escort him.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: role:5
label: recognizer and questioner
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Arete recognizes the clothing and asks about Ulysses' identity, origin, and
garments.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:6
label: divine host on remote island
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Calypso is described as a powerful goddess dwelling alone on Ogygia who takes
Ulysses in kindly.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:7
- id: role:7
label: offerer of immortality
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Ulysses reports that Calypso wanted to make him immortal and ageless.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:8
label: thunderbolt ship-destroyer
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: Ulysses says Jove struck his ship with thunderbolts and broke it up.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:9
label: storm-raising antagonist
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: Neptune raises a storm that destroys the raft and forces Ulysses to swim.
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: role:10
label: maiden helper
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: Alcinous's daughter gives Ulysses food, washing, and clothing after he asks
for aid.
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- ev:15
- id: role:11
label: attendant women
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: The maids are connected with the clothing and appear with the daughter on
the beach.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:14
- id: role:12
label: drowned companions
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: Ulysses says every one of his comrades drowned when the ship was destroyed.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: sea and river water
literal_form: sea, mid-ocean, shore, sheltered river, washing in the river
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:4
- fig:6
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:10
- ev:11
- ev:12
- ev:15
- id: sym:2
label: raft
literal_form: raft provisioned with bread and wine, later broken by storm
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:4
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:11
- id: sym:3
label: recognized clothing
literal_form: shirt, cloak, good clothes, stout clothing
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:7
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:9
- ev:15
- id: sym:4
label: food and drink
literal_form: supper, bread, wine, eating and drinking
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:4
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:9
- ev:15
- id: sym:5
label: coastal mountains
literal_form: first outlines of the mountains upon the coast
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- mountain
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: sym:6
label: leaves and thicket
literal_form: thicket and leaves used as covering during sleep
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: sym:7
label: thunderbolts and storm
literal_form: Jove's thunderbolts and Neptune's great storm
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:5
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:11
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Ulysses requests food and homeward escort
summary: Ulysses denies divine status, describes his distress, asks to eat, and
requests that Alcinous and the others help him return home at daybreak.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: scene:2
label: Arete recognizes the clothes
summary: After supper, Arete recognizes the garments Ulysses wears and asks him
about his identity, origin, and the source of the clothes.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:3
label: Calypso, shipwreck, and departure from Ogygia
summary: Ulysses recounts shipwreck by Jove, loss of his comrades, arrival at Ogygia,
Calypso's care and offer of immortality, and her eventual sending him away with
provisions, clothing, a raft, and wind.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:9
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:3
- sym:4
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: scene:4
label: Storm, landing, concealment, and beach aid
summary: Ulysses sees the Phaeacian mountains, loses his raft in Neptune's storm,
reaches a river, sleeps under leaves in a thicket, then receives aid from Alcinous's
daughter on the beach.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:6
- fig:7
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:3
- sym:4
- sym:5
- sym:6
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:11
- ev:12
- ev:13
- ev:14
- ev:15
- ev:16
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: homeward return after suffering
taxonomy_refs:
- return
basis: Ulysses explicitly asks for help getting home and frames his wish around
seeing his property, bondsmen, and house again.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
confidence: high
cautions: The passage gives only this segment of the homecoming story, not the full
return.
- id: motif:2
label: departure from divine island captivity or refuge
taxonomy_refs:
- departure
basis: Ulysses recounts a long stay with Calypso on Ogygia and his later departure
by raft after she sends him away.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:8
- ev:9
confidence: high
cautions: The passage does not fully explain whether Calypso's action is voluntary
or compelled.
- id: motif:3
label: refusal of offered immortality
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_beloved
basis: Calypso wishes to make Ulysses immortal and ageless, but he cannot be persuaded
to accept.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
confidence: medium
cautions: The taxonomy reference is approximate; the passage states a divine offer
of immortality but does not use the phrase beloved.
- id: motif:4
label: shipwrecked stranger aided by maiden
taxonomy_refs:
- initiation
basis: After storm and exposure, Ulysses asks Alcinous's daughter for aid; she gives
him bread, wine, washing, and clothes.
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:12
- ev:13
- ev:14
- ev:15
confidence: medium
cautions: The initiation taxonomy is approximate; the passage presents hardship
and social re-entry but not an explicit initiation rite.
- id: motif:5
label: guest aid through food, clothing, and escort
taxonomy_refs:
- sacred_exchange
basis: Ulysses receives or requests food, clothing, washing, and escort from hosts
and helpers after shipwreck.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:15
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage presents hospitality and aid; a specifically sacred exchange
is not explicitly named.
- id: motif:6
label: divine storm destroys vessel
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Jove destroys the ship with thunderbolts, and Neptune later raises a storm
that breaks the raft.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:11
confidence: high
cautions: No specific available taxonomy reference exactly matches this motif.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 3176-3180
quote_or_summary: Ulysses says, “I have nothing of the immortal about me,” and resembles
the afflicted.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/odyssey-butler.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 3180-3190
quote_or_summary: Ulysses asks to sup despite sorrow and asks that at daybreak they
help him get home.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/odyssey-butler.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 3192-3197
quote_or_summary: Everyone approves arranging an escort; drink offerings are made,
and the others go home.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/odyssey-butler.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 3197-3205
quote_or_summary: Arete recognizes the shirt, cloak, and clothes as work of herself
and her maids and questions Ulysses.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/odyssey-butler.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 3207-3214
quote_or_summary: Ulysses says Ogygia is a far island where Calypso, daughter of
Atlas, dwells alone.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/odyssey-butler.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 3214-3219
quote_or_summary: Jove breaks Ulysses' ship with thunderbolts; his comrades drown,
and he drifts on the keel for nine days.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/odyssey-butler.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 3219-3223
quote_or_summary: Calypso takes Ulysses in kindly and wants to make him immortal
and ageless, but he refuses.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/odyssey-butler.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 3225-3230
quote_or_summary: Ulysses stays with Calypso seven years; in the eighth year she
tells him to depart, perhaps by Jove's command.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/odyssey-butler.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: lines 3230-3233
quote_or_summary: Calypso sends Ulysses on a raft with bread, wine, clothing, and
a warm fair wind.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/odyssey-butler.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: lines 3233-3236
quote_or_summary: On the eighteenth day Ulysses sees the first outlines of the mountains
on the coast.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/odyssey-butler.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:11
type: summary
locator: lines 3236-3241
quote_or_summary: Neptune raises a storm; the sea breaks the raft, and Ulysses swims
toward shore.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/odyssey-butler.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:12
type: summary
locator: lines 3242-3247
quote_or_summary: Ulysses avoids a rocky landing, swims to a sheltered river, exits
the water, and gathers his senses.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/odyssey-butler.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:13
type: summary
locator: lines 3247-3251
quote_or_summary: At nightfall Ulysses enters a thicket, covers himself with leaves,
and sleeps deeply until afternoon.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/odyssey-butler.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:14
type: summary
locator: lines 3251-3255
quote_or_summary: Ulysses wakes and sees the daughter and maid servants on the beach;
he asks the daughter for aid.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/odyssey-butler.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:15
type: summary
locator: lines 3255-3259
quote_or_summary: The daughter gives Ulysses bread, wine, washing in the river,
and the clothes he is wearing.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/odyssey-butler.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:16
type: summary
locator: lines 3259-3268
quote_or_summary: Alcinous faults his daughter for not bringing Ulysses home; Ulysses
defends her as not to blame.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/odyssey-butler.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: Literal events and figures are explicit in the passage. Some motif taxonomy
links are approximate because the available taxonomy does not include exact labels
for hospitality, shipwreck, or divine storm.
reviewer_status:
status: needs_review
reviewer: ''
reviewed_at: ''
notes: Machine-generated draft from OpenAI Batch; not human-reviewed.
extracted_by: openai_batch:gpt-5.5
extracted_at: '2026-04-28'
notes: |-
Evidence locator ev:16 extends slightly beyond the supplied end label because the provided passage text includes Alcinous's and Ulysses' exchange after the line-range label.
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